“The best news is that these concerns about government growth, as well as economic stagnancy, go beyond just Republicans. Independents and other groups of swing voters are largely in sync with Republican attitudes on these issues today. It is not dissimilar from how Independents and Democrats were in sync in their views about the Iraq War in 2006 and 2008, with disastrous electoral consequences for the GOP. I suspect we will see a similar shellacking at the polls for Democrats in November.” This is the assessment of Jon Lerner, a Republican campaign consultant and pollster who recently helped win victories for Nikki Haley and Tim Scott in South Carolina and Mike Lee in Utah. Powerline has Lerner’s full analysis about what is going on out there.